Battle for Dragon City

In order to ensure the safety of the international communication line between Yunnan and Burma, review the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army, attack the effective strength of the Japanese army, prevent the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, demonstrate to the international community the determination of the Chinese government to resist the war to the end, and strive for more foreign aid, November 1939

In the middle of the year, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government decided to launch a winter offensive, deploying about 71 divisions of powerful troops to launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese army.

Longcheng is an important military location in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui regions, a land of plenty, and an accessible place for the Japanese army to advance eastward, southward, and northward. Therefore, Longcheng has become a transportation chokepoint for the Chinese army and the Japanese invaders. On December 18, the Nationalist Army

Zhang Shicheng, a miscellaneous military force, was ordered to take over Longcheng and was responsible for guarding this gate and covering the exhausted friendly troops' withdrawal from Longcheng to rest and recuperate.

Longcheng is surrounded by mountains on one side and water on the other. To the west is Longshan, to the east is Crocodile Lake, and to the north and south are Jiangnan Water Town.

The northeast side of Crocodile Lake winds and leads to the Yangtze River Channel.

If there was no war, this place would be such a beautiful scenic spot.

Winter is cold and the north wind is biting.

After another day and night of fierce fighting with the Japanese army, although the attack of Zuo Zuobin's regiment was repelled, Zhang Shicheng's troops also suffered heavy losses.

The trees were on fire, the withered grass turned to ashes, and the smell of saltpeter stung the nose.

Part of the city wall has been destroyed.

Many buildings in the city have been reduced to ruins by the bombings of Japanese pirate planes.

The residents of the city have never stopped crying and crying about the tragic death of their loved ones in the war.

The repeated battles that lasted for half a month caused the number of residents in the city to drop sharply from more than 90,000 to more than 70,000, and more than 10,000 people were killed by Japanese plane bombings.

Many villages outside the city were razed to the ground by Japanese artillery fire.

There are corpses and dead fish floating in many fishing ponds, small lakes, and rivers.

Outside the city, soldiers wearing straw sandals and single-layered clothes, carrying rifles on their backs, and wielding shovels, dug trenches, piled sandbags, and carried ammunition outside the city and along the surrounding mountain roads. The commanders of the three regiments went to the front of the battle in person.

Command and supervise the battle. There is no time to carry away the corpses lying in the bomb craters in front of the trenches, let alone bury them.

When the artillery fire stopped, the officers and soldiers were busy replenishing ammunition and repairing the trenches.

The division commander Zhang Shicheng is of medium build, about fifty years old, with a bearded face and rough skin. He has a gold revolver on the right side of his abdomen, with a shiny golden handle that makes him stand out from the crowd.

He has an ax stuck on his back.

At this time, he held up his telescope and stood on the west gate tower to watch the enemy in Longshan.

Next to him stood his adjutant and guard captain Yang Bing, and behind him were dozens of sturdy guards wearing German-style steel helmets, holding German-made MP18 submachine guns in their hands, and with axes on their backs.

The equipment of these guards is the best in the entire division.

Zhang Shicheng, who came from the Sichuan Army, was originally from Pao Ge. Before joining the army, he was the leader of the Yetou Gang. His guard only had thirty-six soldiers.

Yang Bing is about 23 or 24 years old. He has a handsome face, a straight posture, and is slender and smooth. He also wears a German-style steel helmet, a German MP18 submachine gun on his chest, and an ax on his waist. He is different from other guards.

What's more, there are two German-made Mauser pistols (commonly known as box guns) hanging on his waist. He stood next to Zhang Shicheng, looking at the piles of corpses outside the city, smelling the pungent smell of blood, and frowning,

The expression is tragic.

Several times, he looked sideways at Zhang Shicheng, opened and closed his mouth, as if he had something important to report to Zhang Shicheng. However, Zhang Shicheng kept looking around with his telescope, and he did not dare to say anything.

Finally, Zhang Shicheng put down the telescope.

Yang Bing quickly said: "Master, please let me go to the front line. In the past few years, you have sent me to Germany and the Central Army Officers School to study military affairs. Now that I have returned from my studies, you have to let me be useful!"

Zhang Shicheng looked sideways at Yang Bing, his thick eyebrows furrowed, and he was about to say something.

At this time, a beautiful figure flashed out from behind the guards. She was about twenty-one or twelve years old. She was wearing a tight-fitting leather jacket and black pants. Her long hair was flowing in the wind, and her beautiful face was full of anger.

She pointed her slender finger like green onion at Yang Bing and cursed: "Fart! You are so damn shameless when you are so blessed. You stay with my father, why are you useless? You are not

Have you accomplished anything in your studies? You can work as a consultant for my father! Huh, without my father saving you, you would have starved to death on the streets of Chengdu."

She was Zhang Shicheng's only daughter Zhang Hui. Although she was handsome, she had a fierce temper. She was studying in Chengdu, but when she heard that her father was leading his troops north to fight the war, she secretly ran away from the university and sneaked into her father's army.

Zhang Shicheng, who loved his daughter dearly, had no choice but to let her do whatever she wanted.

Previously, she went through the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Xuzhou with her father, experiencing the baptism of blood and fire. Later, she participated in the second round of training with her father and led his troops, and developed extraordinary skills.

Yang Bing's fair and handsome face suddenly turned red and white, and he said in a low voice: "Miss, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It's a mistake to be humble! It's a mistake to be humble. However, I saw hundreds of brothers falling in the enemy's fire.

, I really want to go to the front line to avenge my brothers. For me, it is more meaningful to lead the troops to fight and charge into battle for the division."

Zhang Shicheng yelled at Zhang Hui again: "Hui'er, don't be rude! If Bing'er hadn't dragged his father out of the temporary headquarters during the battle at Dunwu Temple, his father would have been killed in the bombing of Japanese planes in Shanghai. Xuzhou

During the battle, my father was seriously injured while fighting with the Japanese with swords, and it was Bing'er who used an ax to cut a bloody path for him."

Then, he sighed again and said: "Oh, dad is a little selfish! The paparazzi in the Guard are all orphans and beggars that dad adopted before. Dad has a deep affection for them! He can't bear to charge them to death in front of the battle.

Therefore, my father has always promoted military ranks to the brothers in the Guards, but not their positions. Now, in terms of military ranks, all the brothers in the Guards can be company commanders or battalion commanders. Xiang Bing'er has already reached the rank of major.

Become the deputy commander."

Hearing this, Yang Bing felt moved, and the corners of her eyes immediately became moist.

Zhang Hui raised her finger and pointed at Yang Bing, then turned around, pointed at the guards again, and scolded: "Did you hear that? My father has always treated you as his sons."

"I heard it!" the guards replied in unison.

"Miss, please rest assured, Zheng is sworn to protect the safety of the master!" Zheng Zeying, the deputy captain of the guard, was tall and powerful. He raised his hand and swore an oath with a loud voice.

"Swear to protect the master's seat to the death!" the guards heard this and said in unison.

"Hey, hey, brothers, don't be despondent. Although our unit has suffered heavy damage from the tug-of-war all day and night, there are also many Japanese corpses lying outside the city. Just now, Wei went out of the city to check the casualty situation. According to rough statistics, this

Throughout the day and night, people lay inside and outside the trenches

There are also more than 200 Japanese corpses. Shangfeng said that as long as our troops hold on for one more day, reinforcements will arrive and replenish our troops, ammunition and equipment." At this time, another officer walked up to the city gate steps and approached.

The guard waved his hands and said some words of encouragement.

As soon as these words came out, the officers and soldiers on the tower immediately became energetic.

This person is Wei Xiong, Zhang Shicheng's chief of staff. He is about forty years old, tall and thin, wearing glasses, quite elegant, wearing a Browning pistol on his waist, military boots, and a yellow woolen coat. However, his mouth
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